# successor
## English
### Alternative forms

* successour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /səkˈsɛsə/
** Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /səkˈsɛsɚ/, IPA: /səˈsɛsɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

successor (plural successors)
* A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
    George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.
** 2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, translated by Paul Cooper, Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century‎, →OCLC, →OL, page 27:After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.
** 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
* The next heir in order or succession.
* A person who inherits a title or office.
* (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
    A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.

#### Synonyms

* (person or thing that immediately follows another): aftercomer (uncommon); see also Thesaurus:successor

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “person or thing that immediately follows another”): predecessor; see also Thesaurus:predecessor

#### Derived terms

* successor ideology

#### See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
* successor
* addition, summation:
    (augend) + (addend) = (total)
    (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
* subtraction:
    (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
* multiplication, factorization:
    (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
    (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
* division:
    (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
    (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)
       Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
* exponentiation:
    (base) = (power)
* root extraction:
    √ (radicand) = (root)
* logarithmization:
    log$_{(base)}$ (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin successōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [suk.səˈso]
* IPA: (Valencia) [suk.seˈsoɾ]

### Adjective

successor (feminine successora, masculine plural successors, feminine plural successores)
* (law) succeeding, following

### Noun

successor m (plural successors, feminine successora)
* successor

#### Related terms

* succeir

### Further reading

* “successor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “successor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “successor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “successor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Etymology

From succēdō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /sukˈkes.sor/, [s̠ʊkˈkɛs̠ːɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /sutˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [sutˈt͡ʃɛsːor]

### Noun

successor m (genitive successōris, feminine succestrīx); third declension
* follower, successor

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: successor
* → English: successor
* → French: successeur
* → Galician: sucesor
* → Italian: successore
* → Occitan: successor
* → Portuguese: sucessor
* → Spanish: sucesor

### References

* “successor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “successor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* successor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin successor.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

successor m (plural successors)
* successor

#### Related terms

* succedir
* successiu